Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solution has been for departments to form collections of their own, using their own budgets and office space. But Cole says the growth of department libraries contradicts the stated University goal of having an integrated collection...
...boot camps for male Establishment offspring. They were also essential literary institutions. In those days hardly a month seemed to pass without the publication of some novel recounting a hormonal fire storm in one of these supposedly serene, and unquestionably enviable,settings. As traditional private schools changed, the fictional form they spawned fell into disuse, and, frankly, that engenders no deep sense of loss. All that quivering sensitivity! All that earnest soul-searching! All that whining about absent and misunderstanding parents, present and misunderstanding trigonometry teachers...
COLLECTED POEMS by Philip Larkin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.50). The pre- eminent poet of his time, Larkin died in 1985 at age 63. This collection includes works previously unpublished or unavailable in book form, and documents the triumph of a poet who found his style by lowering his voice...
...forcing officials to consider alternatives to imprisonment for most nonviolent offenders. Twenty-two states are experimenting with electronic surveillance, in which offenders stay at home wearing a high-tech ankle bracelet that emits a signal telling probation officers where their charges are. A number of states have adopted some form of intensive-supervision probation. In that system, an offender lives at home but must check in with probation officers a number of times each day while also holding a job, often in community service. This approach requires the hiring of more probation officers, but it nevertheless winds up costing only...
According the admissions report in the 1921 Official Registrar, which covered the years from 1917 to 1920, 60 percent of Harvard students were form private schools; that compares to 34 percent now. Eighty-eight percent of students were from New England and Atlantic states, compared to 53 percent today. Three percent hailed from Western states, compared to 15 percent today. Only a handful of students came from foreign countries--between .1 and .4 percent--and today foreign students comprise 6 percent of the student body...